Microsoft appears to be seeing strong traction with HoloLens in the enterprise space, and the company continues to expand its "Mixed Reality" platform in that sector, promising businesses time and money savings. Two new applications to address this, Remote...

vGIS, a new geographic information system (GIS) visualisation platform from the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri) partner Meemim, is being used to view underground infrastructure while wearing Microsoft Hololens. Piloted by Toms River Municipal Utilities Authority in New Jersey,...

Despite some reports last year suggesting that Microsoft may have discontinued HoloLens, the company has affirmed its work on a new version of the AR headset. Back in July of 2017, HoloLens' Director of Science, Marc Pollefeys, wrote that the company was working...

Despite HoloLens being now almost two years old, Microsoft isn't showing any signs of slowing down its plans for the AR headset. Today the company announced that the device is available in two more markets, with rental options rolling...

Microsoft announced at their at Future Decoded conference in London that HoloLens, the company's augmented reality headset, will be expanding its international availability to include all of the European Union in December. HoloLens is currently only officially available in Australia, Canada, China, France,...

Microsoft today announced that 343 Industries, the studio tasked with overseeing the Halo franchise, will be creating Halo-themed experiences for the company's lineup of VR headsets. The information, revealed by HoloLens' chief inventor and 'Mixed Reality' project lead Alex Kipman, comes alongside the...

Microsoft's HoloLens already has a physical input device, the HoloLens Clicker, but in a recently published patent, we may be getting a peek into what the company was initially planning before they decided to include each HoloLens with the...

Microsoft has undoubtedly been working on the next version of HoloLens, the company's AR headset, but now we know a little more about what's going into the next iteration: a Microsoft-built custom AI chip designed to carry out low-latency...

Game studio HappyGiant and Tippett Studio, the production firm founded by stop-motion guru Phil Tippett, has launched HoloGrid: Monster Battle (2017) on Microsoft’s HoloLens platform. First appearing on Samsung Gear VR, the tactical strategy game combines elements of chess,...

Created by Helios Interactive, Echelon is a multiplayer board game played on Microsoft's HoloLens that, as an proof of concept, gives us a look into what sort of games we might be playing in the future when we're not engaged...

FX TV series Legion (2017) is getting an immersive, mixed reality experience powered by Microsoft's HoloLens, and it's coming to this year's San Diego Comic-Con on July 20-23. Sessions: The Legion Mixed Reality Experience will take fans into the headspace of show's protagonist David...

Microsoft Technical Fellow and chief inventor of HoloLens, Alex Kipman, took the stage today at Microsoft Build 2017 to show off a number of upcoming mixed reality hardware and software streaming out of the company and its partners. Among the announcements—including...

Today Microsoft announced that developers in the US and Canada can now pre-order the Acer ($299) and HP ($329) Mixed Reality headsets from the Microsoft Store. Delivery of the headsets is scheduled for August 2017. In October, Terry Myerson, Microsoft executive...

Developer Lucas Rizzotto has created CyberSnake, a free game for Microsoft HoloLens. As explained in the game's launch video (above), the game is inspired by the 2D Snake arcade game, moved into a mixed reality environment, and played in...

Augmented reality is conceptually so broad, there's almost no limit to what you could imagine doing with the technology. But rather than throwing out the playbook entirely, we'll to our grand visions through useful incremental steps that begin with integration...